Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messersmith, who has the career diplomat's predilection for the gloved hand, liked this approach to his new job. He had gone to Buenos Aires with the firm conviction that the speechmaking, note-writing tactics of Spruille Braden must end; that the patching-up job, if it could be done at all, must be done behind the scenes. In this he was privately seconded by Secretary of State Byrnes...
...year course, which leads to a Master's degree, opened up this September after 32 consecutive months had been consumed on the drawing boards. Fourteen graduate students are the guinea pigs testing this new approach to the problem of learning all there is to know about an alien land and culture...
...publicity stream, the Chase-Smith company is emphasizing Theatre in its productions this year. There is no doubt that the settings and other theatrical aspects of its productions are excellent, but the overwhelming assets of the Ballet Theatre still lie in its repertoire and subordinate dancers. No one can approach a list of productions including Pillar of Fire, Fair at Sorochinsk, Fancy Free, Interplay, the new Facsimile, and a wide range of more familiar numbers. Ballets like Fancy Free have retained surprisingly well the fresh impact that made them famous originally, and the Ballet Theatre still treats them with just...
While waiting for golfers to get off the next green, he calmly practiced putting on the hole just finished. On every difficult approach shot he walked up for a look ahead; on trap and green shots he sometimes went up to see how the shot looked backwards. On one three-quarter-inch putt last week, he went through all the footwork and club-positioning that he used on a ten-footer. After a match, he usually retired to Maniac Hill (the practice range) to work on some minor flaw. Ben Hojan seemed to thrive on tension and hard work...
...Another approach is the "coronagraph," developed by Dr. Bernard Lyot of France in 1930. It is a telescope with an internal disc hiding the face of the sun, and specially designed to eliminate glare. Though tricky, it works even better than the spectroheliograph, showing the corona, the faintly glowing halo which surrounds...